Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) has brought aboard Tom Miller as creative director, Dan Ligon as interactive associate creative director, Andrew Ault as senior copywriter and Kara Taylor as creative recruitment director. All four are based in the agency’s Boulder office.
Miller began working in advertising in the early 1990s for TBWAChiatDay NY. While there, he worked on several different clients including the NYNEX Yellow Pages, Reebok and MTV. After a few years, he joined boutique agency Goldsmith/Jeffrey, where some award-winning campaigns he created for Crain’s New York Business and Barney’s led to a job at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco. After six years there working on E*TRADE, The California Milk Processor Advisory Board, Nike, Budweiser and Goodyear, he headed east to join Merkley+Partners in New York. There he created traditional and interactive efforts for Mercedes-Benz of North America, BMW motorcycles, the New York Post and Arby’s Restaurant Group.
Ligon comes to CP+B from AKQA, San Francisco, where he served as an associate creative director. His track record includes experimenting with new media for clients such as The North Face, Flipo Video and Kraft, all the while managing to find time to write and direct the occasional experimental film, some of which have screened at various festivals, most notably Sundance.
Ault has worked as a writer and creative director on everything from Virgin Mobile to Spinal Tap over the past decade. He began his advertising journey at Fallon Minneapolis in 1997, working on both traditional and interactive work for such clients as BMW, Purina, Nikon, Starbuck’s, Holiday Inn and Miller Lite. He then headed to Leagas Delaney in San Francisco to reinvent adidas’ digital presence and launch Virgin Mobile in the U.S. From there, he freelanced at Wieden+Kennedy N.Y., CP+B L.A., as well as a full-time stint at FCB San Francisco. He then rejoined his Wieden + Kennedy creative director Ty Montague at JWT N.Y. and led the effort to pitch, win and develop work for jetBlue.
In 2006 Ault went to Hollywood to jump start Creative Artist Agency’s marketing department, and spent three years creating groundbreaking work in the branded entertainment space for eBay, Abercrombie & Fitch, Mattel, Sprint, V Australia Airlines and the Gap, as well as talent clients Carl Reiner, Tobey Maguire, Brett Ratner, Carson Daly, John Legend, Gene Simmons and Spinal Tap. Now at CP+B, he will serve on the lead interactive team for Best Buy.
Taylor moves over to CP+B from Leo Burnett where she was VP/director of creative recruitment. Taylor spent her first seven years at Burnett recruiting and cultivating young creative talent and managing the agency-wide summer internship program. She fell in love with helping the “kids” launch their advertising careers. It was this passion that prompted a year-long hiatus from Burnett to operate as director of the Miami Ad School in Minneapolis. Her most rewarding accomplishments there were helping diversify enrollment and forging new university, community and industry relationships.
Taylor is also very involved in advertising events, keeping her finger on the industry’s creative pulse and meeting potential recruits. She has co-chaired “The Show” for the Minneapolis Advertising Community and served on the YoungGuns International Advertising Awards jury in Sydney, Australia.
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Tell “Freaky Tales,” Look Back On The Impact Of Sundance On Their Careers
When Sean Baker accepted the Best Director Oscar this month for Anora, he made an impassioned plea for the theatrical motion picture. “Where did we fall in love with the movies? At the movie theater,” he affirmed, adding that it’s “a communal experience you don’t get at home.” The shared experience of being in an audience--being moved to tears, laughter, or stunned into silence--is like no other. And it is all the more invaluable in a world where we've become increasingly divided. Writers-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden know all too well the richness of the in-theater experience. Boden recalled last year’s Sundance Film Festival when Freaky Tales--a feature she and Fleck teamed on--was screened before a capacity crowd. Described by Boden as a “crazy, popcorn, fun film,” Freaky Tales elicited a loud, boisterous response from the audience. “The laughter was loud,” as was the applause “when crazy shit went down,” she noted. Now Fleck and Boden, a long-time directing team dating back to their film school days, hope to see and hear that audience reception replicated in theaters across the country as Freaky Tales is slated for wide release by Lionsgate on April 4. Freaky Tales is a genre mashup set in Oakland, Calif., Fleck’s hometown, in the 1980s. Its ensemble cast includes Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Dominique Thorne and Normani. The directing team describes it as a personal fever dream fantasy incorporating Fleck’s youthful obsessions from sports, movies and music. The film had been percolating within Fleck for some 30 years, springing from his childhood experience in the 1980s with influences ranging from basketball to hip-hop to punk rock. Fleck at one point called... Read More